Quotes About Doubt

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.

Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."

FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue.

If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.